"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh

Thursday, July 28, 2016

A dispute over a train operator’s lunch break led to a recent “near miss” head-on collision in the subway tunnels of the D.C. Metro.

Patrick Lavin, Metro’s chief safety officer, revealed details of the July 5 incident that led to the train operator’s termination. Addressing the D.C. Metro board Thursday, Lavin detailed the egregious safety violations that almost injured two workers and placed passenger trains on the same track. Lavin said the operator got into a dispute with his superiors about a lunch break, apparently wanting to take it at a station where he could get better food...

Who's the patron saint of riders stuck with incompetently-run subways? I may need to start offering up prayers.

An online petition to remove all air conditioning from Department of State property has gotten more than 1,800 signatures since it was posted online Sunday.

A Change.org user named Hopalong Ginsberg created the petition in response to remarks made by Secretary of State John Kerry claiming air conditioning and refrigerants are as much of a threat to the world as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The petition garnered 1,869 signatures by Monday afternoon.

Thursday, July 21, 2016

We have all witnessed the revolting spectacle of Obama exhorting the police forces of our nation to confess to the vast, lingering racism with which he believes they are afflicted . How gratifying it would be if, say, the National Association of Chiefs of Police, or the National Sheriffs’ Association were to respond somewhat in the style of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, who replied to the Ottoman Sultan’s demand for their submission with a letter that is a classic of ribald defiance.

President Jughead Mulligan’s ears would burn for the rest of his term of office. The words would buzz in his meatus acusticus externus like a continuous loop of Bronx cheers. Perhaps even the extravagant amour propre to which he is prone would be perforated like a papier-mâché unicorn in a hail storm.

Yes, yes, I know. Nothing like this will ever happen. Our senior cops are ladies and gentlemen. Besides which, Barry’s ego would undoubtedly compel him to interpret a collective expression of disdain for his ignorance and hubris as confirmation of his original belief; the man is, after all, immune to genuine introspection, impervious to facts, completely unteachable. But imaginary justice, especially of the comical kind, is all the comeuppance this inflated pipsqueak is ever likely to encounter in this life, so, pardon me if I occasionally daydream.

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

I’m going to call it My Life Matters. It will be dedicated to the proposition that, while I intend no harm or ill will to any one, I bear primary responsibility for my own safety; therefore, know all men by these presents, that I will take whatever steps I deem necessary to protect myself and my loved ones from injurious assault, battery and attempted murder, up to and including the lawful shooting of your ass drt*, irrespective of your race, color, ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, vocation, personal circumstances, economic need, dysfunctional childhood, history of mental illness, or addiction to controlled substances.

Monday, July 18, 2016

Oh, wait. I forgot. It's their patriotism that shouldn't be questioned; it's always open season on ours.

Hyper-partisan, racially divisive, ethically challenged half-wit, Maxine Waters, says that trying to stop Boeing's sale of aircraft to the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world is undermining Obama's genius plan to bring peace to the Middle East through his enabling of Iran's acquisition of nukes. Ms. Waters describes this opposition as "unpatriotic":

"I raise questions about patriotism," she said, "and for those who think I'm talking about them, then you can deal with that any way you want to deal with it."

Well, here's how I'll deal with it: I'll just call it like I see it. You're a barely functioning brain stem connected to an overly active larynx, a vicious, dishonest political hack who narrowly avoided being censured by the House for ethics violations only because, at the time, it was controlled by worthless parasites every bit as detrimental to good government as you are. You are the superlative example of the scoundrel for whom patriotism is the last refuge. I take solace in the likelihood that your idiocy will lead you to wrap yourself in the flag without remembering that you had first set fire to it.

Thursday, July 14, 2016

I get lots of emails at work advertising seminars, webinars, conferences and so on. Today, I received a pitch to attend a cyber-security symposium at which one of the keynote speakers will be...FBI Director James Comey. I suppose he'll focus on non-actionable incidents of extreme carelessness.

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Yeah, tell you what. Start small. Try it out in your community, Ms. Chicago Activist. See how that works out for you after a week. Hell, just try it for a day. Be sure to report back with your findings.

Meanwhile, at a memorial service for the murdered Dallas policemen, B.O. demonstrates, once again, that he has no class, but lots of brass, as he weaves his devisive views on race into what should have been a straight-up eulogy.

Victor Davis Hanson admirably sums up Barry's m.o. here: "Unfortunately, President Obama, ever since he first appeared on the national political scene in 2008, has systematically adopted a rhetoric and an agenda that is predicated on dividing up the country according to tribal grievances, in hopes of recalibrating various factions into a majority grievance culture."

Monday, July 11, 2016

Have you elitists ever met normal Americans? Try this little experiment. Jump in your Prius and drive to, say, Oklahoma. Go ahead, Google it – I’ll wait. Then find a bar and go in after work. Look for a guy at a table in boots and jeans and a work shirt enjoying a Coors or some other non-craft, non-pumpkin-infused beer. Then tell him this:

“Hey stupid, you’re dumb because your parents couldn’t send you to college. You’re also dumb for believing in Jesus. You’re a sucker and a baby killer for joining the Army and fighting in Iraq. Plus, you have privilege because your great-great-great-great grandfather came from Glasgow. So I’m going to tell you what to do from now on. I’m your boss and moral superior. You’re going to let any dude dressed like a woman into the bathroom with your daughter. You’re going to turn in your global warming-causing pick-up truck. You’re going to be out of your job when we finish off the oil industry. You’re going to give up your guns. And I don’t care what you say about any of it. You don’t matter. You don’t get a say. Also, you’re racist.”

See how that works out, but check your dental coverage first. Now, think about how that strategy is going to work out in our country as a whole.

DoublePlusUndead has a list of rather surprising items in the funding bill related to the IRS (surprising because you'd have thought that some of them would long ago have become standard operating procedure).

Sunday, July 10, 2016

Don't despair: there is hope for those who suffer from bitchy resting face.

This guy is quite the down-home kook (he was also the point driver for my brother's squad when they served in Iraq; Bro Paco said he helped them preserve their sanity). Here he does voices of famous people on the Titanic.

You get the gist. FBI Director James Comey provided an extensive list of Hillary Clinton's violations of law at a press conference today, and then summed it all up by saying that "no reasonable prosecutor" would recommend an indictment. I guess a "reasonable prosecutor" is one who decides that he'd like to keep his job, no matter what.

I can well imagine the shade of Boss Tweed looking down (or up, as the case may be) at the Clintons and shaking his head in admiration and envy.

Monday, July 4, 2016

Kurt Schlicter's stirring denunciation of the ruling class and its contempt for the very concept of law. A sample:

Now it seems we actually have a new social contract – do what we say and don’t resist, and in return we’ll abuse you, lie about you, take your money, and look down upon you in contempt. What a bargain!

It’s not a social contract anymore – American society today is a suicide pact we never agreed to and yet we’re expected to go first.

I say “No.”

We owe them nothing - not respect, not loyalty, not obedience. Nothing.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Mel Gibson has a new movie coming out, Hacksaw Ridge, about a conscientious objector in WWII who served as a medic and won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism in saving scores of lives during the Battle of Okinawa. Looks promising.

More outstanding work from TSA, as they stop a terrorist disabled teen cold in her tracks.